longevity risk

Bloomberg reports today that Scor the French reinsurer is targeting the longevity swap market by establishing a new team in London focused on capturing a portion of the longevity risk transfer sector. Longevity swaps are a growing area of risk transfer which allows pension schemes and insurers to hedge the risk of retirees living longer […]

Life settlements and the secondary market trading in life policies are becoming an increasingly prevalent insurance-linked investment opportunity for investors, insurance companies seeking to receive value for life policies held and pension firms. They’re also seen as one of the ways you can hedge some longevity risk by buying/trading in policies with a different longevity […]

Sources have told us, and the FT.com is reporting this morning, that JPMorgan have recently completed an important longevity hedging transaction which could help the market achieve its goal of becoming liquid enough for future trading to occur. The deal sees JPMorgan take on £70m worth of the longevity risks of the UK pension scheme […]

Pension Insurance Corporation has announced that it has entered into a pension scheme buyout agreement with trustees of the Honda Group UK Pension Scheme to insure the £7m Honda Racing Development portion of the pension scheme. This effectively transfers the liability for the portion of the Honda scheme to Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).

Hymans Robertson, the specialist pensions advisory and management firm, has published a report looking at the health of the UK’s FTSE 350 companies pension schemes. The report finds that the aggregate deficit, or shortfall, in these pension schemes has seen a £33 billion improvement. As a result Hymans Robertson suggests that pension schemes focus will […]

Interesting news this morning from Tranen Capital, a provider of alternative investment opportunities particularly around life settlements, who have issued a press release about their life settlements fund which they say is the first to offer investors protection against longevity risk.

The longevity risk transfer market is one area of reinsurance and risk transfer that is slated for growth during 2011. Industry experts are saying that the sector which involves pension scheme buy-outs, re/insurance, bulk annuities and longevity swaps is expected to grow, and since Swiss Re successfully transferred $50m of longevity trend risk to the […]

To tackle the issue of longevity risk, the risk of an increasingly ageing population and the impact that will have on pension liabilities, the re/insurance industry will need to work closely with both governments and capital markets. On its own the re/insurance industry does not have the capacity to assume the amount of longevity risk […]

Goldman Sachs has completed its acquisition of Paternoster, an insurance company specialising in pension risk transfer. Goldman Sachs already owns Rothesay Life, another specialist in the pension risk transfer market. The two companies will remain separate for a short time until a merger of the two can be arranged.

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has released details about its part as risk modeller for the recent Kortis Capital Ltd. transaction, the first longevity catastrophe bond, issued by Swiss Re. The deal closed recently and enabled Swiss Re to transfer $50m of its longevity risks to the capital markets through insurance-linked securities.